A new morality?

American Thinker ^ | 19 Aug, 2021 | Greg Ripke

[MtnClimber]

Those of us who still believe in private property seem to be out of step with the times.

I recently had an experience that I’m having trouble getting my head around and causing me to wonder if morality is dead. I know it isn’t. There are too many acts of kindness stories. Maybe morality is just eroding.

A tenant in a house I rented decided, without my knowledge, it needed an air conditioner. So he cut a hole in the walls and installed one. He moved out and I put the house up for sale, pointing out one of the features, an air conditioner.

The house didn’t sell so I pulled it from the market and put it up for rent. Upon inspection with a prospective tenant, I found the air conditioner missing and the hole patched with an ugly, unsightly pressboard panel. Turns out the former tenant arranged for a buddy to gain access and remove the air conditioner.

Now, the law is that an appurtenance can only be removed by a tenant if the removal causes no damage to the property. Meaning once attached…permanently attached.

The former tenant was contacted and rattled on in all directions, essentially claiming unjust enrichment if he left the air conditioner. Fair enough if, first, the property had been left in original condition. And if, second, I hadn’t given the tenant a break on the rent, charging him less than the going rate (for familial reasons not essential here).

The reason I’m having trouble is that I personally would never do that to anyone. So, I’m wondering: Am I, and probably most of us, unaware of some new morality.

I’m starting to think so. You don’t arrest shoplifters and looters anymore?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

...and then there are the horror stories of HOAs where the residents are so apathetic and the rules are so permissive that you have residents bit by unleashed dogs, trash accumulating, abandoned cars, most units being rentals so the HOA ends up becoming an apartment complex.

The board anguished over the patio decision for a long time and almost voted to okay it but we had to think long term. One family carved their initials into the wet cement near their home. Then they sold the place and we charged them to fix it.

We had a drug dealer who it took a while to get rid of cuz he was very discrete. We had an episode with MS-13. We even had someone filming pornos in one of the units. And this is a nice neighborhood. Gotta have balance. If the patio guy wanted to change the exterior then he should have bought a place where he owned the exterior.

[Orbiter]

Don’t know if your name is Richard, but you are a Dick.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

That was my father’s name (God rest his soul) and neither he nor I had any problem with it.